Background Information
- ARTFLARTFL Project is a consortium-based service that provides its members with access to North America's largest collection of digitized French resources, including the Dictionnaires d'autrefois, the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert, and the Bibliothèque Bleue de Troyes.
- AthenaFrench language in France and Switzerland with links to texts in philosophy, science, history, economics, literature, etc.
- Bibliothèques Virtuelles HumanistesVirtual Humanistic Libraries implements the OAI-PMH to facilitate access to scanned documents and exchange of descriptive metadata.
- Cambridge Companion to the Literature of ParisBy 1620, where this volume begins, the first in a long line of extraordinary works of the human imagination, in which the city represented itself to itself, had begun to find form in print. This collection follows that process through to the present day.
- Cambridge History of French LiteratureFrom Occitan poetry to Francophone writing produced in the Caribbean and North Africa, from intellectual history to current films, and from medieval manuscripts to bandes dessine;es, this History covers French literature from its beginnings to the present day.
- The Cambridge Companion to French LiteratureIn this authoritative and accessible account of French literature, sixteen essays by leading specialists offer provocative insights into French literary culture, its genres, movements, themes, and historic turning points, including the cultural and linguistic challenges of today's multi-ethnic France.
- The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French literatureThe Chanson de Roland to Feudalism and kingship and more
- EEBO - Early English Books Online This link opens in a new windowDigital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in English from 1473-1700.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) This link opens in a new windowDigital images of books published during the 18th Century in the areas of history, geography, social sciences, religion and philosophy, general reference, fine arts, literature and language, law, medicine, science and technology.
- Gutenberg-eThe Gutenberg-e prizewinning books represent the most distinguished and innovative scholarship delivered with creative and thoughtful use of digital technology. These books have undergone a rigorous academic review process by distinguished historians brought together by the American Historical Association and produced through a close collaboration between the authors and the electronic publishing staff at Columbia University Press.
- Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie.Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie is the only journal devoted to both Diderot and the Encyclopédie . Resolutely multidisciplinary, excluding no form of participation or research method, it has an international audience, both through its readers and its contributors.
- Atlas départemental de la FranceCall Number: Central Reference ; G1844.2 .A78 2004
- The French century : an illustrated history of modern France byCall Number: Central Library ; DC110 .M686 2007
- Guide to French Literature byCall Number: Central Reference ; PQ226 .L48 1992
- La grande encyclopédie byCall Number: Online
- The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French byCall Number: Online and Central Reference ; PQ41 .N486 1995
- Public access to art in Paris: a documentary history from the Middle Ages to 1800 byCall Number: Central Library ; N6850 .B46 1999
- Bibliothèque de l'Institut national d'histoire de l'artLa bibliothèque de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) est une bibliothèque de recherche spécialisée en art et archéologie. Ses collections proviennent de la Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie, fondée vers 1910 par Jacques Doucet puis donnée à l'Université de Paris en 1918. En 2016, elles se sont enrichies de celles de la Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux, installée au sein du palais du Louvre et dont les origines remontent à 1791.
- Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec: Digital CollectionBAnQ has an ambitious digitization program that covers the entire published or archival documentary heritage produced in Quebec since the XVII th century or of foreign origin and related to Quebec. All categories of records are affected: printed and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings, etc.. Digital Collection BAnQ enriched continuously and these resources are free.
- Bibliothèque nationale de FrancePreserves and provides access to the national documentary heritage of France.
- GallicaGallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and its partners. Online since 1997 and is updated every week thousands of new and now offers access to over 2 million documents.
- L'Enfer de La Bibliotheque Nationale de France (From the Archives of Sexuality and GenderEnfer ("Hell") from the Bibliothèque nationale de France is one of the most storied and sought-after private case collections of forbidden books. The name alone invokes visions of damnation and moral ruin should one delve into its scandalous volumes. The collection was created in the 1830s to protect and isolate works that were considered contrary to the morals of the time. As with later private cases, the entire collection was kept in a locked section of the library, accessible only by application to the Director-General of the Bibliothèque and approval by an advisory committee of curators.
- NumistralA partnership between the BnF and the Bibliothèque universitaire de Strasbourg.
- SUDOC CatalogueThe catalog of the University System of Documentation is the French union catalog created by libraries and documentation centers of higher education and research. It includes more than 10 million bibliographic records describing all types of documents (books, theses, journals, electronic resources, audiovisual materials, microforms, maps, musical scores, manuscripts and old books ...)
- WorldCat (FirstSearch) This link opens in a new window
Catalog of books, manuscripts, websites, internet resources, maps, computer programs, musical scores, films, slides, newspapers, journals, magazines, sound recordings, articles, chapters, papers, and videotapes available at libraries worldwide. Cross-search OCLC databases: ArchiveGrid, ArticleFirst, Ebooks, ECO, ERIC, GPO, MEDLINE, OAIster, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst, WorldCat, and WorldCatDissertations.
- Culturethèque, the digital library of the Institut françaisDigital library gives access to French literature and culture including ebooks, over 250 magazine titles, music, film clips, bandes dessinées, podcasts, and more.
- OpenEditionNearly 10,000 ebooks and 535 journals mostly in French but also in Spanish, Italian, German and English.
- RetronewsRetronews site (newspapers up to 1950- complements Gallica): Offer of free access to whole site with extra search features for 30 days.
- WebLettresWebLettres is the association of French teachers website. Powered by a volunteer teachers thirties, it aims to foster interchange, and proposes discussion lists and shared for the online courses and teaching programs in space.
- ÉruditÉrudit is a multi-institutional publishing consortium (Université de Montréal, Université Laval, Université du Québec à Montréal) and a non-profit society established in 1998.
Érudit is the leading provider of Francophone and Canadian peer reviewed journals in North America. The platform gathers in one point nearly 150 Canadian scholarly and cultural publishers, including the most prestigious French-language Canadian university presses
